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Graphene 2013: Hype won't help, say manufacturers

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Rahul Fotedar, CEO of Norwegian start-up Graphene Batteries AS, agreed that the level of hype surrounding graphene made speaking about the reality of the material's capacity difficult. "Graphene has a lot of extraordinary properties, but many of these ...

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Synopsis: Shaking Open a Gap in Graphene

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Graphene is an amazing material that has a lot going for it. But one thing it lacks is a gap in its electronic band structure that would allow it to be used as a semiconductor. Researchers can artificially introduce a gap, but often the energy ...

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Dark-Matter Mystery Nears Its Moment of Truth - Science

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At a meeting last week, physicists working with an ultrasensitive particle detector deep underground reported three blips that could be particles of dark matter, the mysterious stuff whose gravity binds the galaxies, bumping into atomic nuclei. Other ...

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Why Scientists Believe in Dark Matter and Other Invisible Things - Parade

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Today I'd like to expound upon the nature of faith and science. The idea came to me while my ... And yet, a number of physicists and astronomers are quite convinced dark matter is out there, and equally convinced there are no such things as auras ...

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NASA Probe Observes Meteors Colliding With Saturn's Rings

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided the first direct evidence of small meteoroids breaking into streams of rubble and crashing into Saturn's rings.

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New matter-antimatter asymmetry discovered - Zee News

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New matter-antimatter asymmetry discovered Washington: The LHCb collaboration at CERN has made the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in the decays of the particle known as the B0s [superscript 0, subscripts]. It is only the fourth sub ...

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What's the matter?

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Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, has demonstrated how wrong it is. Their research provides an insight into the nature of the universe. The information it yields has still more grandeur for being the product of human inquiry, rather ...

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Scientists find clues to why everything exists

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The answer may lie in the fact that scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which runs the Large Hadron Collider, say matter and anti-matter may decay differently. At the beginning of the universe, there was an equal number ...

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CERN physicists can explain matter vs. antimatter

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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collaboration at CERN discovered a known difference between matter and antimatter, contradicting a long believed theory that they were more similar. The research was part of the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) ...

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NASA Selects Small Businesses for Innovative Research and Technology Projects

NASA has selected 44 additional proposals from 42 small high-technology companies to enter into negotiations for Phase 2 contract awards through the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.

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CERN Finds Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry - Space News - redOrbit

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Scientists at CERN have submitted a paper to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters about the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry.

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New matter-antimatter difference observed in LHCb ... - Science Daily

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Researchers at CERN are reporting the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry in ... ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news and science ...

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UK firm buys cancer-zapping spin-off from CERN ... - Yahoo! News

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News: LONDON (Reuters) - The giant particle-smashing machine run by CERN outside Geneva is not only unravelling the mysteries of the universe, it may also ...

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CERN NEWS : LHCb announces new results in matter-antimatter ...

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Matter and antimatter are thought to have existed in equal amounts at the beginning of the universe, but today the universe appears to be composed essentiall...

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NASA Extends Mission Operations Support Contract

NASA has exercised a contract option with Lockheed Martin Corp. of Gaithersburg, Md., to provide continued mission control systems services, development, maintenance and operations support as part of the Facilities Development and Operations Contract.

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Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics in a Classical Spacetime

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Macroscopic Quantum Mechanics in a Classical Spacetime. Abstract. References . No Citing Articles. Supplemental Material. Download: PDF (171 kB) Buy this ...

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Probing relaxation times in graphene quantum dots : Nature ...

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Graphene quantum dots are attractive candidates for solid-state quantum bits. In fact, the predicted weak spin-orbit and hyperfine interaction promise spin qubits ...

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Inorganic nanosheet to enhance batteries

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A graphene inspired electrode material that could help batteries hold more power has been developed by Chinese scientists. The large surface area of these cobalt oxide nanosheets is key to their electrochemical performance. Batteries are a cornerstone ...

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Watch This Awesome CERN Animation of Big Data Behind the Super Collider

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The CERN IT team explains the multi-staged process that made it possible to find extremely rare sub-atomic particles like the Higgs boson among the trillions and quadrillions of particles detected anyway. First in line are sophisticated selection ...

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Private Asteroid-Mining Project Launching Tiny ... - Space.com

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A billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company aims to start putting its big plans into action soon, launching its first hardware into space by this time next year.

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Will space mining surpass earth mining? | Google Lunar X PRIZE

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Bob Richards, Moon Express CEO and Co-Founder, joins Thom Hartmann and discusses the future of space exploration and its potential for economic growth.

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French Researcher from Cambridge says, “The Potential of Graphene is Huge”

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European government bodies in collaboration with industrial and commercial partners aggressively promote the material's brand identity to dethrone Silicon Valley with “Graphene Valley.” Patented and produced in Manchester, UK, following the 2010 Nobel ...

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Sean Lahman: There's a great future in graphene

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Graphene is simply carbon, arranged into a honeycomb pattern just one atom thick. It was first developed in 2004 by a pair of Russian researchers at the University of Manchester. In 2010, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov received the Nobel Prize in ...

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Workshop on Quantum Mechanics and its applications

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Quantum mechanics is that branch of Physics which is highly successful in defining the behavior of subatomic particles like protons and nuclei. Quantum Mechanics was developed for first time in early 20th century yet it is one of the most intriguing ...

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Producer Mia Sheldon, who owns land on the moon, talks about the budding space tourism ...

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The Large Hadron Collider goes to London




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A new exhibition will take the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to London in November 2013. In a close collaboration between CERN and the Science Museum, Collider: Step Inside the World’s Greatest Experiment will showcase CERN's activities through theatre, video and sound art.

Visitors will be guided through a digital control room and detector cavern, and will be able to interact with objects such as LHC magnets and parts of detector systems from the LHC. At the heart of the exhibition will be a 360-degree projection that will follow the journey of particles from source through the CERN accelerator chain to collision. The exhibition will take in the vast scale of CERN's activities from the subatomic to the gargantuan.

Also on display will be a historic exhibition about particle physics, featuring the apparatus that led JJ Thomson to discover the electron in 1897; and the accelerator that Cockcroft and Walton used to split the atomic nucleus in 1932.

“I particularly like the fresh, theatrical approach the Museum is taking to bringing the drama and excitement of cutting-edge science to the public,” CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer told the Science Museum.

Collider will open in November 2013 at the Science Museum in London. The exhibition will run for six months.




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A fourth particle shows matter antimatter asymmetry at CERN

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... Alike 3.0 Unported license. The analysis of a 2011 experiment at CERN helps explain the predominance of matter over antimatter in the present universe. Theoretically matter and antimatter should have existed in equal amounts at the time of the Big ...

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By Mike WallSpace.com A billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company aims to start putting its big plans into action soon, launching its first hardware into ...

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New Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Discovered, Meaning Remains Unclear

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Scientists at CERN have submitted a paper to be published in the journal Physical Review Letters about the first observation of matter-antimatter asymmetry. The team said they made the observation while looking at the decay rate of particles known as ...

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Planetary Resources – The Asteroid Mining Company – Hang out ...

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Join us on Wednesday April 24th at 11:00AM PDT for a special half hour event – hang out with our Asteroid Miners to celebrate our one year anniversary since ...

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Bechtel joins near earth asteroid mining mission - EXPLORATION ...

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Bechtel joins near earth asteroid mining mission. The contractor has joined forces with space miner Planetary Resources to mine near earth asteroids. Follow @ ...

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Asteroid-mining company reveals new telescope, says 'water is the ...

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A lot has happened since Bellevue-based Planetary Resources announced its plans to mine near-earth asteroids just one year ago, and to celebrate its ...

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Private Asteroid-Mining Project Launching Tiny ... - Space.com

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A billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company aims to start putting its big plans into action soon, launching its first hardware into space by this time next year.

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Worth it or wasted: Space tourism

Now that the space shuttle fleet is retired, Florida is betting the next big thing out the Kennedy Space Center is space tourism. Lawmakers have proposed spending $1.5 million dollars for promotion and marketing in this year's budget. Here's the exact ...

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Quantum physics A grip on misbehaviour Nature Nature Publishing Group

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Quantum physics A grip on misbehaviour ... Holt proposed a test known as the CHSH test to detect a feature of quantum mechanics called quantum nonlocality ...

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BRIEF-Advanced Oncotherapy buys CERN spin-off

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Related Topics. Financials ». LONDON, April 24 | Wed Apr 24, 2013 2:32am EDT. LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - Advanced Oncotherapy PLC : * Proposed acquisition of Adam S.a., a cern spin off company. Financials ...

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The Hunt for Anti-matter at the LHC CERN

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Matter makes up much of our universe but just after the Big Bang, a mysterious counterpart to matter known as anti-matter is thought to have also existed in large quantities. Scientists at CERN are using the Large Hadron Collider to try to find out ...

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Advanced Oncotherapy shares soar as its acquires CERN spinoff

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AIM quoted micro-cap life science firm Advanced Oncotherapy (LON:AVO) soared after it announced a deal to acquire ADAM, a spin-off from CERN which is developing particle accelerators to treat cancer. While CERN is spending billions researching the ...

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UK firm buys cancer-zapping spin-off from CERN collider

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A technician stands near equipment of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experience at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Cessy near Geneva in Switzerland. Photo: Reuters. Also Read. Particle hunter on space station ...

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Investing in quantum is a no-brainer: Lazaridis

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The BlackBerry co-founder told the crowd at the University of Waterloo's Leadership Innovation Conference that quantum physics holds the key to most of the technological advances we'll see this century. His investment of more ... Raymond Laflamme, the ...

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Oklahoma-based technology company relocating headquarters to Austin

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The company specializes in semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots, which are which are tiny particles of semiconductor material that give off light when they are “excited” with energy, such as ultraviolet radiation. Quantum Materials is in ...

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Quantum physics: A grip on misbehaviour

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In 1969, Clauser, Horne, Shimony and Holt proposed a test, known as the CHSH test, to detect a feature of quantum mechanics called quantum non-locality. Building on this proposal, Reichardt et al. (page 456) extend this test to characterize and control ...

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NASA 'Inspired Science' Challenge Winners Talk Live With Astronaut

NASA astronaut Don Pettit will conduct three live video chats Thursday, April 25, with 12 student teams whose science experiments won an agency-sponsored contest.

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